{"id":1474,"date":"2012-03-06T12:06:32","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:06:32","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T17:06:32","slug":"noaa-researchers-share-science-of-storms-at-san-francisco-exploratorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2012\/03\/noaa-researchers-share-science-of-storms-at-san-francisco-exploratorium\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA researchers share science of storms at San Francisco Exploratorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1480\" href=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/2012\/03\/noaa-researchers-share-science-of-storms-at-san-francisco-exploratorium\/exploratorium-logo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1480\" title=\"exploratorium-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2012\/03\/exploratorium-logo-316x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Times;line-height: normal;font-size: small\"><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.6991473790258169\" style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">A team from NSSL will be NOAA Scientists in Residence at the world-renowned San Francisco Exploratorium science museum from March 8-25, 2012. \u00a0During the event, \u201cRain in the Air: \u00a0The Science of Storms,\u201d the team will offer Exploratorium staff and visitors a behind the scenes look at the tools, techniques and people behind the effort to better understand severe storms. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: transparent;line-height: normal\"><strong id=\"internal-source-marker_0.6991473790258169\" style=\"font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">NSSL retired researcher <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: bold;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Dave Rust<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> will share his thunderstorm electricity expertise and his skill at creating weather measuring instruments. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #232323;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Dave pioneered the use of free-flying balloons and mobile laboratories to make observations, significantly advancing thunderstorm science. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: bold;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Susan Cobb<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> is a meteorologist and science writer for NSSL, and her experience includes international forecasting, and writing about weather science for all audiences. Susan will work with visitors to understand, experience and forecast weather in the San Francisco area and around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: bold;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Sean Waugh<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma and an instrumentation specialist working with the NSSL. \u00a0He helped design and build seven Mobile Mesonets, storm research cars outfitted with weather instruments, computers, and communications equipment. Sean will give personal tours of the Mobile Mesonet and focus on ways NSSL collects data to learn more about storms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">Cobb and Waugh will give presentations on current NSSL research at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 18, 2012<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: bold;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">in the McBean Theater.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">The partnership is the result of a five-year educational grant with NOAA to co-develop interactive exhibits, learning experiences and professional development workshops for the learning institution. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\"> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory\u2019s mission to improve our knowledge of severe <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">weather and to develop new tools to better forecast and warn of its hazards has endured since its establishment in 1964.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 15px;font-family: Arial;color: #000000;background-color: transparent;font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;text-decoration: none;vertical-align: baseline\">The Exploratorium first opened in 1969 and welcomes more than 500,000 visitors each year.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from NSSL will be NOAA Scientists in Residence at the world-renowned San Francisco Exploratorium science museum from March 8-25, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":1480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[87,131,182,234,336,426,463],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-dave-rust","tag-exploratorium","tag-hot-items","tag-issue-marchapril-2012","tag-nssl","tag-sean-waugh","tag-susan-cobb"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.nssl.noaa.gov\/nsslnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}